Good fantasy fiction: … explores real human conditions through fantastic metaphors which universalize the characters’ individual experiences to speak personally to us all.

I’m the idiot box. I’m the TV. I’m the all-seeing eye and the world of the cathode ray. I’m the boob tube. I’m the little shrine the family gathers to adore.’ ‘You’re the television? Or...

I heard about the bombings the same way everyone else heard about them, from the television or radio. I did not order them but was very glad for what happened to the Americans there.

Everybody who is watching television or is in the stands always thinks his shot is going down. We feel the same way. It’s great to have him back and hitting great shots at the end.

Texting and phone calls, fireworks, blends, café au lait, and music. Yesterday’s television. Work and beer. The neighbor’s dog, or those strange flowers, the way it smells at Maisen. Those ordinary things I talk about...

I really like working in television and I like exploring a character over a longer period of time, and I like the consistency of television.

Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding ‘like Princess Di’) but the more thoughtful ones resent and rather dislike us as a nation and people, as friends of mine...

The amount of educational programming on television today is simply desensitizing. The only reason left to go to school is to see gun violence.

TV is a pornographic cacophony of violence, death obsession, screams, gunfire and drama. You think it’s fine because you are damaged.

Sci-fi fans really have a commitment to the characters even as much as the actors do. There’s a synergy between making television and who gets to watch it.

I’m always interested in trying to stay on the cutting edge of television storytelling. To be slightly in front, pushing for the next new thing.

If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a...

For me, TV and broke go together. Not as in, The TV is broken, but more of noticing that most people who watch too much TV are broke.

El problema es que el niño es una esponja que registra y absorbe indiscriminadamente todo lo que ve […] El niño formado en la imagen se reduce a ser un hombre que no lee, y,...

Do you want to have a career that goes beyond, you know, 11 minutes in a 22-minute television show every week? Some people don’t. That’s fine.

So I ask you: whose job is it in this country to wake up comatose parents? Someone better do it soon because knowing television’s potential for harm and keeping that knowledge to ourselves instead of...

We must, together as a nation, stop watching Fox.

Well, fame is a drug and when you take it away from an addict, things can get ugly.

I did not see myself as a leading lady. I thought I was really funny-looking and I would never be the lead, and I certainly would never do film or television. I wanted to do...

In saying no one knew about the ideas implicit in the telegraph, I am not quite accurate. Thoreau knew. Or so one may surmise. It is alleged that upon being told that through the telegraph...

Most people gaze neither into the past nor the future; they explore neither truth nor lies. They gaze at the television.

What do a few lies on TV matter? They can be swallowed, digested and excreted, or follow people when they doze off to sink into oblivion.

Not only it is annoying, it is distracting from life itself. ~on what TV is.

It’s very rare to have rehearsal time on a television show: You get scripts, you show up, and you do it.

Cutting edge, breakthrough, television. That’s what we want to do.

The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don’t have the leisure of time in television.

I just did something on a show on UPN called ‘Girlfriends’ that will be on television in February. I am actually a much better actor today than I was in 1996, believe it or not.

Why do they call them daytime dramas, anyway? Shouldn’t they be bedtime dramas? All anyone ever talks about is getting someone into bed! Plus if you’re at home watching, you’re probably watching in bed. And...

The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer or bludgeon. She reads on planes to picket the antiseptic nature of modern...

I grew up in front of a television. I guess I’ll grow old inside of one.

Reading requires actual concentration. If you skipped a paragraph, or even an important sentence, you could lose the entire story. With most TV shows, though, you didn’t have to concentrate at all. You could space...

With the fragmentation of television audiences and the advent of cable and on-demand services, the prestige of being an anchor is not what it was in the days of Walter Cronkite.

It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find at galaxy’s edge. But in the process, we have lost the human element;...

Wayfarer is built on the idea that we can actually make a huge difference by creating entertainment and television and digital and branded content with a message. It doesn’t always have to be really, really...

The television business is actually going through a tremendous transition, but I think at the end of the day, television is still paramount.

TV families and your own are hard to tell apart, except your isn’t interrupted every six minutes by commercials and theirs don’t get bogged down into nothingness, a state where nothing happens, no skit, no...

We rarely talk about television, only about what’s on television

Television isn’t any longer the only way to fame, all you need is the internet to break into the game

I got my first television at Stanford when I was 20, and I used to watch ‘The Dick Van Dyke Show’. He played my father on ‘Becker,’ and he’s still one of my heroes. Along...

By all standards, except for ‘Star Trek’ standards, 98 episodes of any television show is a wildly successful run.

I don’t think playing it safe constitutes a retreat, necessarily. In other words, I don’t think if, by playing safe he means we are not going to delve into controversy, then if that’s what he...